Theo James Grew Up Listening to Hip-Hop & Playing Basketball

Theo James is super broody on the new February/March 2016 cover of Essential Homme magazine, now available on global newsstands and online.

Here’s what the 31-year-old Allegiant star had to share with the mag:

On his childhood: “A middle-class guy that listened to a bunch of hip-hop and played basketball, I pretended to be a lot cooler than I used to be. We had a whole group of friends that called ourselves the ‘A Crew.’”

On being an adrenaline junkie “I quite like blowing off the cobwebs of things. We live in a world where there are no regular levels of high threat. Sometimes I just need to be
woken up.”

On the Divergent movies: “It’s very much an evolving process. As an actor, you always bring part of you into anything you do, it’s natural. As your own person goes through the different changes of your life, they end up informing the character you play and the mistakes you’ve made or the lessons you’ve learned. I think it was three years ago when I started Divergent. I definitely feel like a different person from that time, so I think Four must change too.”

For more on Theo, visit EssentialHommeMag.com.